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Jacki

@ftd1969.bsky.social
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I am part of the opposition, raised in NYC, been a Californian since '71.. Moved from Twitter. Not my president! Life long democrat🌊 lover of animals 🐕🐱🐇 The woods are my drug of choice. And 💯 woke. If you are selling something, walk by.

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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 4h
www.rawstory.com/eric-schmitt... "Wrong teams, wrong league, wrong state,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editors wrote. “It was based entirely on that sloppy staffing that Schmitt furiously accused Smith of perjury." Yeah, we know the story, but it's fun to gloat some more@
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'Sloppy' GOP Sen. Schmitt pilloried by home state paper over 'cringey' public humiliation
The editorial board of Missouri's largest newspaper joined the pile-on after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) embarrassed himself during his interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on national TV.S...
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Jason Salmon @jsalmoncomedy.bsky.social · 16h
If he doesn’t understand the difference between the Atlanta Hawks & the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s team This would definitely help explain why people like him think there’s so many men playing in women’s sports 
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h
"Super Intelligence."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h
BREAKING NYT: Ken Paxton told a group of conservative donors and lobbyists last week that Trump's midterm convention in Dallas had hurt Paxton politically, according to an audio recording obtained by The Times. "[W]hen we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody's numbers dropped."
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 5h
www.rawstory.com/jim-justice-... What, he's surprised now!!!!
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GOP senator shocks with 'remarkable break from Trump': 'Maybe we're doing something wrong'
Sen. Jim Justice (R-W.Va.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, is urging the administration to pull back on its immigration sweeps. He says ICE is removing people who have been part of their c...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
Hey TN media— will anyone ask @MarshaBlackburn why she ducked 🦆 Jack Smith after whining about him for YEARS? A TVA photo op instead of doing her job on Judiciary committee🤔? Did she not want to remind us she tried to pocket MILLIONS from taxpayers over him doing HIS job? 🤷🏼‍♀️
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 5h
www.rawstory.com/department-o... "It’s kind of an incredible thing that the Department of Justice would rather have a lack of transparency and lose the case than have transparency,” Elias said. “I mean, it leads you to kind of wonder what are they hiding? Why are they so concerned?”
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Trump DOJ lawyer dares federal judge to rule against him in courtroom standoff: report
A Justice Department lawyer dared a federal judge to rule against the Trump administration rather than give the court advance notice.Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias flagged the exchange in a Tuesd...
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 5h
www.gadgetreview.com/5-people-at-... Where has this news been hiding out!
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5 People at U.S. Cyber Command Died by Suicide in 5 Weeks. Lawmakers Want Answers
Fort Meade suicide cluster: five Cyber Command and NSA workers died in five weeks, prompting Congress to push for funding and policy reforms.
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Pattie 🦋🇺🇸💙✊🇺🇦💛💙🌈🏳️‍🌈🐶🐱💙🇺🇸8647💙🇺🇸 @notgoingback2028.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/-bWvE...
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TOP actor BLASTS Trump on red carpet, GOES VIRAL!🚨
YouTube video by Occupy Democrats
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/09/2026
Trump’s deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino posted an AI video of himself riding around in a tuxedo, spraying champagne, and partying at The White House.
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Damn Trump’s Aide For Partying While Americans Suffer
Dear Humans,
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-ad-war/ "This is bad. It’s bad for America,” he pointed out. “But if you don’t care about that, and there’s a lot of evidence right now that you don’t, it’s not only bad for America, it’s really bad for the Republican Party. You need to make him stop.”
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'This is bad': Enormous blunder spotted in Trump's 'taxpayer-funded' ad
A political ad that features President Donald Trump warning, “This is the final battle,” and ends with the disclaimer “Paid for by the US Government,” was a massive misstep that called unwanted attent...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/09/2026
The free speech™️ people are at it again. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Marge finally realizing the Republican caravan fearmongering stuff (@MarshaBlackburn loves to peddle) has always been bullshit
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Can we hate Putin more!
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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Ukrainian forces airdrop supplies to city where bodies are left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-267794... Trump had to use our money, taxpayer money to create an ad showing he is liked cause no one else will 😅😅😂 pathetic!
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Insiders reveal extraordinary measures Trump's team took to ‘calm him down’: report
President Donald Trump's team went to extraordinary lengths recently to "calm him down" as a growing number of GOP lawmakers race to distance themselves from him amid his plummeting approval ratings, ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Tillis: "Folks, this was stupid on stilts ... to have a Russian oligarch who's actually traveled in a delegation to Beijing fund some sort of island wedding for a very wealthy family that also happens to be related to the president? Come on, guys, this is this is amateur hour"
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
The affordability crisis looks very different from their table.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People aren’t faking their disabilities, they’re faking being well. We know society hates us. We know we will be judged for using assistive devices. Many of us take years to get the courage to lean in to accommodations. Stop judging. Help us build a more inclusive world.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/26/p... Of course, tRump did, and of course, this will wind up in court!
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Trump admin cancels funding for refugees, immigrant detainees and others | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is moving to cancel $810 million of funding that has been appropriated by Congress for refugees, immigrants and other services.
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2... "I’m rejecting their deal,” Trump said. “They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately…we’re winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait…that deal would not be acceptable.”
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Mockery erupts over Trump's 'confused ramblings' on rejecting war-ending deal
Critics mocked President Donald Trump's defense of rejecting Iran's ceasefire proposal, which he said would reopen a strait he claims to already control.Trump made the remarks Saturday while speaking ...
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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 26/09/2026
Women resisting oppression are often called troublesome before history calls them courageous. Change has always required women willing to disturb the comfort of systems that depended upon their silence. #Pinks 📨✨ — Pinks Global
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle." ~ George Orwell @knecessary.bsky.social
Kevin Necessary
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She’s so damn dumb it actually hurts.
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They’ve done well for themselves
Photo of Benjamin Netanyahu with a quote from him attached 

"America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up and sell it off, piece by piece, until there is nothing left but the world's biggest wealfare state that we will create and control.
This is what we do to countries
that we hate.
We destroy them, very slowly."
-Benjamin Netanyahu
(Recorded at Finks Bar, Jerusalem, 1990)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig... "Snipers who shoot people visiting their loved ones in the cemetery?” Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) told Raw Story. “It made no sense whatsoever, except as perhaps a ploy to justify the arch." Funny how one stretches to understand a move by tRump. He's the mad hatter!
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'It's absurd!' Trump's latest security 'lies' blasted as effort to trick Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. — How do you fight a fictional threat? Democrats are learning on the job.With President Donald Trump now promising to militarize his proposed 250-foot-tall arch — with tools ranging f...
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-venezu... Really just more BS, but one has to ask where are those millions of dollars from the oil already stolen from Venezuela!!
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Trump's 'biggest oil deal' doomed to collapse as investigation exposes legal flaws
President Donald Trump's touted "biggest oil deal in world history" with Venezuela faces legal and logistical problems likely to sink it.The Guardian reported Saturday that nearly every major claim th...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THANK YOU Tampa for the amazing turnout at the DEMOCRACY RALLY!! What a thrill to see so many defenders of democracy energized for a BLUE WAVE in November! 🌊 C’mon Florida!! Let’s get @davidjolly.bsky.social to the Governor’s Mansion!
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/judge-aileen... The ramifications of this rogue judge's decision to seal the records!
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Judge Aileen Cannon ruling accidentally trips up Trump's revenge probe
An order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is now creating problems for one of President Donald Trump's top priorities at the Justice Department.CNN reported that current and former FBI agents wh...
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... And here's the oligarchs protecting each other! The picture is coming out! The mote they tru to repress, the louder we get.
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Social Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk Documentary
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, along with X, have reportedly rejected ads for Alex Gibney's four-hour long look at Musk.
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hillsborough County declared a local state of emergency Thursday over rising cases of dengue fever. An executive order takes effect today as local officials continue trying to control the mosquito population in Tampa Bay. Pasco and Pinellas Counties have issued state of emergency orders.
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Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties issue states of emergency over dengue fever
Tampa Bay has reported 169 cases, including 160 in Hillsborough, seven in Pinellas and two in Pasco counties as of Sept. 19.
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-ai-267...
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'Blockbuster story' links $50 million pro-Trump contributions to death of major safeguard
Wealthy tech leaders have poured tens of millions of dollars into entities and causes supporting President Donald Trump, and a new “blockbuster story” from The Lever tied those contributions to the “k...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is honestly the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 23/09/2026
🗳️ South Dakota, voting is underway! Absentee voting has started. You don’t have to wait until Election Day. Make your voting plan, know your options & make your vote count. Election Day is November 3rd💙 #SouthDakota #Vote2026 #VivaHerAlliance #SheShed
🗳️ South Dakota, voting is underway!

Absentee voting has started. You don’t have to wait until Election Day. Make your voting plan, know your options & make your vote count.

Election Day is Nov. 3. 💙

#SouthDakota #Vote2026
#VivaHerAlliance #SheShed
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I LONG for those days... Days when Presidents were interested in the entire Nation.
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Chief Pro-Democracy Vahingonilonen ❌👑 @retcw3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We wanted the release of the Epstein Files and no more wars… youtube.com/watch?v=a-SA...
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NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Two Broken Promises
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig... "Earlier this month, Ivanka posted a video of her daughter horseback riding on an idyllic beach and was met with condemnation — even from conservative commentators."
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Massive Ivanka Trump problem triggers existential threat to GOP: 'Rage is building'
The Republican Party has a huge Ivanka Trump problem — and it could end in class warfare, a leading Democratic Socialist warned.“The anger and rage is building,” India Walton told Raw Story. “As we be...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
Trump hates Marc Elias because Marc keeps standing up to Trump in court — and winning. “If you think I don’t take pleasure each and every time there is a court ruling against the DOJ and this administration,” Marc says, “well, you’re wrong.” Join our fight: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Stevie P @intruder1500stevie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The more I hear about FBI involvement in suppression of contacts and details in their possession. The more inclined I am to believe someone in there has a lot to hide…..and they’re probably still alive ? iol.co.za/news/world/2...
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Hugh Hefner ‘repeatedly’ flagged Epstein to FBI
A lawsuit has revealed how despite reports, the FBI failed to act on complaints about Jeffrey Epstein.
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/trump-267793... Gave him hell, didn't they. No wonder the angry face on tRump and his wife!
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Trump turns back on reporters as they shout questions at him
President Donald Trump gave reporters the silent treatment Friday as he welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan at the White House, ignoring their questions as he turn...
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David W. Pippy @davidwilliampippy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning! Elmore, Vermont, September 29, 2013 photographed by Manish Mantami..
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Woke pinko libtard white male boomer @raymondmcoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump has lower the bar for campaign integrity. Lies like these are standard for Republican candidates and office holders
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they really think we are all idiots
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected?” #AbolishICE
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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.rawstory.com/len-paxton-g... "The Monday morning quarterbacking is going to be biblical,” the operative said. “The hand-wringing and the blaming. Paxton will blame Cornyn. Trump will blame Paxton.” Bring it over the finish line, Texas! Talarico all the way!
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'Trump should blame himself': GOP facing 'biblical' civil war over Ken Paxton implosion
Republicans face "biblical" infighting if Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton loses a Senate race in which he has not led a single public poll since mid-August.A veteran Texas GOP operative made that pr...
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